I ask you all here to give us your point of view of what this site (Forum and Language Course) is missing, we know already that biggest problem is all spammers who posts crap in the forum, we have plans to get rid of them also.

But we need to enhance the site not only for discussions but also in functions and content, please give us ideas how we can give you a better site :)

First of all get rid of the spam (maybe by closing the forum for search engines, so that it is less interesting for spammers to have links on this site).
Or give (a few active) users the possibility to push spam posts out of sight into quarantaine to be looked after by a moderator.

An other way is to give new users the ability to make postings, only after they introduced themselves and are aproved by a moderator (of course the introduction thread must be open for new users after their e-mal address is approved).

Thank you for the positive words and of course your advises, I am going to do what you told me, today I have deleted over 1400 spam posts in all forums here, and still we are automatically deleting over 90% of all incoming forum spam, don't know why this site is so massively popular by spammers.

I will within 1-2 weeks publish a Beta site so you can see how the coming site will look like, we really need all opinions I can get about it.

The new site will have features like:

* New forum (of course the users and old posts will get imported into the new forum)
* New design
* Interactive web courses
* All users will maybe get the ability probably to make their own personal blog posts besides the forum
* We will allow much more users to become editors to change or add content with our revision control
* Of course help our users to locate resources on the net
* Much more linguistic facts

Maybe the list of over 8000 users is interesting for them, although only a few users are active (apart from the spamming "users").
It is interesting for spammers to have links on websites that score well in search engines... The better your site scores, the more spam you get, so you can take it as a compliment

In phpBB it is possible to get an overview of only the posts you have posted a reaction; those are probably free of spam and those also are the posts you like to check for reactions of other members; that could be an improvement for this forum too.